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Unstudied

Unstudied \Un*stud"ied\, a.

  1. Not studied; not acquired by study; unlabored; natural.

  2. Not skilled; unversed; -- followed by in.

  3. Not spent in study. [Obs.] ``To cloak the defects of their unstudied years.''
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unstudied

late 14c., "not made a subject of study," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of study (v.). From 1650s as "natural, not artificial."

Wiktionary
unstudied

a. 1 Free of artifice or cunning; innocent, spontaneous and unaffected. 2 Not gained by study. 3 Not studied.

WordNet
unstudied
  1. adj. not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu; "an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved"; "simple unstudied charm" [syn: uncontrived] [ant: studied]

  2. lacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field; "is unstudied in Latin as he is in may other matters"

Usage examples of "unstudied".

The more she exerted herself to bend his resolution, and the more scope she gave to the unstudied expression of her artless sentiments, the more inextricably was the magician caught, and the more firm and inexorable was his purpose.

Sah-luma, reclining in a quaintly carved ebony chair, was toying with the fruit and wine set out before him on an ivory and gold stand,--his dress, simpler than it had been on the previous evening, was of fine white linen gathered loosely about his classic figure,--he wore neither myrtle-wreath nor jewels,--the expression of his face was serious, even noble, and his attitude was one of languid grace and unstudied ease that became him infinitely well.

For the next five days, no leaf would go unsketched, no soil would go unsampled, no wildlife unstudied in all of huge Algonquin Park.